Please keep the mailing list copied! I'm including a full quote of your text below, including the odd linebreaks.
* gerald jean (2011-03-28) writes: > Thanks Ralf for your hep, > > Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> a écrit sur 2011/03/27 10:24:55 : > >> * gerald jean (2011-03-23) writes: >> >> > 1) When viewing a document (C-cC-c) auctex guesses wrong what I want to > do >> > 95% of the time. I know it is trying to be smart and start Ghostscript > if >> > there is embedded graphics in my document but it does anyhow, even for > a >> > very simple document with just a little bit of text I do get: >> > >> > dvips myfile.dvi -o && gv myfile.ps >> >> Could you be using PSTricks? > > No. But I had a few settings repeated in my preamble, removing the > duplicates seems to have solved this problem, on the file I am testing on > anyway! > >> >> > What I would like to have 100% of the time (I'll manually take care of > the >> > 5% time this won't be appropriate), when viewing a document is: >> > >> > xdvi -paper us myfile.dvi >> > >> > Without the "-paper us" argument, xdvi won't even start on my machine, >> > RedHat Linux. And of course the appropriate arguments when "source >> > specials" are activated, next problem! >> >> Please read (info "(auctex)Starting Viewers") in the AUCTeX manual. >> This should provide you with the information you need to set up the >> viewers according to your requirements. > > I have been doing that and, please correct me if my interpretation is > incorrect, I read that: > > TeX-output-view-style > > "If the first element (a regular expresion) matches the output > file extension, and the second element (a regular expression) > matches the name of one of the style options, any occurrence of > the string `%V' in a command in `TeX-command-list' will be > replaced with the third element." > > It's value, for the relevent part is: > > ("^dvi$" "^letterpaper$" "%(o?)xdvi %dS -paper us %d") > > The relevent setting in "TeX-command-list" is: > > ("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard-or-function t t :help "Run Viewer") > > And for TeX-view-style the settings are: > > ("^letterpaper$" "%(o?)xdvi %dS -paper us %d") > > My document style is: > > \documentclass[letterpaper, 11pt, twoside, openright]{report} > > Viewing after compiling yields in the mini-buffer: > > xdvi myfile.dvi > > I also tried "b5paper", "legalpaper", "executivepaper", none of these > document class options get picked up?? > > Hence the expansion never happens! What am I missing??? As mentioned in the manual, `TeX-output-view-style' and `TeX-view-style' are deprecated. Try to customize the other variables mentioned in the manual. -- Ralf _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
